A great starter pack to connect with people working on #ecology at a large scale 🌍🧪
Global Ecology Vol. 2 👉 go.bsky.app/L37W5uH
DM @global-ecology.bsky.social to join the pack, there’s still room for more ! 😊
There are over 80 local bat groups across the UK, all doing wonderful work to help bats. If you want to get involved in bat conservation in your area and join a group of like minded people, get in touch with you bat group. www.bats.org.uk/support-bats...
Exciting to be able to share our ongoing work using novel eDNA techniques to detect the western chimpanzee in Guinea-Bissau 🇬🇼
@derbyuni.bsky.social @arcusfoundation.bsky.social @joanachimpa.bsky.social
www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...
The IUCN Red List categories and criteria
The IUCN Red List logo
Did you know that you can get trained in IUCN Red List assessment for free online?
I have my undergrads do this as a semester-long assignment to understand policy-relevant science. You can do it too! 🧪🦑🌎
www.conservationtraining.org/course/index...
ALA Labs frontpage & text logo. ALA LABS text is in white, formatted as off-centre stacked text. Underneath is smaller text, "Experiments in code, data analysis & visualisation from the Atlas of Living Australia." The background is green grass with a Southern Brown Tree Frog in the middle, hanging onto the grass. It has a darker brown top and lighter brown underside. The frog's eye is a rich dark yellow, with a black pupil in the shape of an oval, stretching from the left to right side of the eye
An animated scroll through an ALA Labs post, showing code, text and visuals to make a data visualisation in R. The article is on how to make a hexagon map of Australia, where each hexagon is an area of Australia, and each point in the hexagon is positioned and coloured to represent a species.
Examples of dataviz that ALA Labs posts show how to make in R. They are colourful and fun. One of them is even 3D!
✅ Do you use R or Python?
✅ Are you an ecologist/biologist?
Then you might find our website ALA Labs useful!
ALA Labs is full of how-to articles to visualise or analyse biodiversity data. Some are for beginners, others are advanced/experimental 😀
labs.ala.org.au
🧪🌏 #rstats #python #quartopub
Anthropomorphized samurai bats from an old Japanese print
🦇 I love old pictures of bats and I think I just found my favourite piece of #BatsInArt [Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861)]:
Fantastic!
Photo of the front page of the paper - showing animals and plants and people encircled across the globe - There needs to be more emphasis on the ecological component of One Health as we consider the problems of biodiversity loss, climate extremes, habitat fragmentation, and emerging disease. Image credit: Shutterstock/BeataGFX.
Important piece by Gittleman - “It’s impossible to separate human health from health of the natural world. Ecology is the unifying science that integrates knowledge..[the] One Health approach is unlimited, exciting, & necessary for the health of life on our planet” www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🧪🌎🌐🌾
NEW Decline of European bird populations continues especially birds of farmland. Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) presents updated wild bird indices 1980–2023. Data = 168 bird species 30 countries⬇️ @rspb.bsky.social @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social @ec.europa.eu @uclcber.bsky.social 📉🐦